It's a spoof of Napoleon Dynamite, that movie that came a few years back but this one has a bunch of black people in it. Kip and his black wife are in it from the first movie

 

Curiosity got the better of me and I actually bought one of these things last night. As you can tell from previous posts here, I generally don't like Apple products (and especially dislike iTunes). The one exception is the iPhone, which I respect quite a bit bit it doesn't play well with my work so I've never owned one. So despite this thing being a too-expensive luxury item for the rare niche between my 13" laptop, my cell phone, and my beloved Zune HD... I bought one primarily to finally try out the app ecosystem.

I'll give more reactions later, but here is my initial take: there's nothing revolutionary about the device itself. If I already had an iPhone or iPod Touch, I'd say it's quite redundant. The extra screen size for the app ecosystem is draw... that's pretty much it. I like the size, shape, simplicity, and battery life. I don't like a lot of the things I posted about before (especially lack of multitasking and Flash). I was also a bit surprised that the responsiveness, especially of the accelerometer, is not as good as the Zune HD. Overall, the jury is still out... It's a poor excuse for a computer, so if I think of it that way, it would be going back. As a device for consuming media, it's pretty cool. I'll be curious to see how it stacks up to future Android pads.

 

It seems that it will have multitasking eventually, since the 4.0 software is coming to is in the fall.

 

http://www.macworld.com/article/1504..._everyone.html

 

this thing must be great while you're in the can. In fact, I have Gateway tablet that I Love, But it's heavy. I'm taking a right now using it

 

OK, I take this back. Not only is the wifi issue getting worse (it's happening more frequently, and it prompts me for my network password every time it disconnects) but the increase brightness "fix" no longer works at all.

 

Did you get the 16, 32 or 64 version?

 

64

 

Lemon... don't know.

I've got the 64 as well and no wifi problems. I have two computers and the iPad running on a cable router.

Did you put your apple stickers on?

 

Not even going to bother reading back through what I missed.

But I love how a lot of what I argued has come to fruition. Companies such as CBS, ABC, and other going to html5.

Netflix released an app.

The full potential of this device has yet to be revealed. And when I played with one a few times I actually loved typing on it in landscape, very surprised.

Scrabble....its awesome that you can use the ipad as the board and use iphones/touches as the tile holders. brilliant.

 

Is that Lexulous or an actual Scrabble app?

 

Actual Scrabble via bluetooth.

 

while it's a good implementation of the technology. scrabble on the iphone/ipad is not as good or as practical or cheap as actual scrabble.

Read my review!!

https://acurazine.com/forums/showpos...postcount=1493

 

What it is a glimpse of what some really talented people are going to come up with for this device in the near future.

 

Since Apple doesn't provide instructions with the iPad except log-on to iTunes, what cleaners can you use to remove fingerprints? Windex?

 

A microfiber cloth should do the trick...if it gets really bad, a little spritz from some screen cleaner usually works for when its REALLY dirty.

Instructions are usually posted online in the support section.

 

And people are going to bitch that playing scrabble is $$$, but if you HAVE it already it's pretty cool.

 

Don't know. From what I've seen online, this wifi issue seems to be fairly common amongst Verizon FIOS users. Oh well, I've decided to return it and order the 3G version.

And I'm saving the stickers for a special occasion!

 

^It doesn't have to do with Verizon just a lot of people have verizon fios that also have iPads. It's the same similar tech saavy consumer that would have both. Old fuddy duddys don't have iPads or fios (unless someone else bought it for them).

I don't have fios internet (just TV, I get free interwebs elsewhere)

The iPad worked fine on the FiOS at work but has sucked tonight at home.

 

 

you're back!!!

 

Here's a trick that I use all the time. I think they're called bookmarklets so you can google for more if you want. Below you'll see some code that if you make a bookmark out of you can you to make safari much cooler. The first is find in page which if you click the link it allows you to search the page you're viewing. The 2nd is scroll to end which scrolls to the end of a page much like tapping the black bar with the time on it takes you to the top of the page.

Find in page
http://javascript:void%28s%3Dprompt%...ffsetTop%29%3B

Scroll to end
http://javascript:scroll(0,document....scrollHeight);

I put URL tags around the important parts so it should work. I added them to the bookmarks bar which you can enable in the settings

 

nice. will it work for iphone?

 

yup, I've been using it on my iPhone for a long time now.

 

Anyone reads that Adobe has admitted that the exclusion of Flash on the iphone/ipad has the potential to hurt them?

While I love certain Adobe products...bring on html5 or better!!!

 

Yeah I saw that. Did you see the blog post by the Adobe guy after they figured out that Apple is disallowing the use of Flash CS5 to make apps for iPhone OS 4.0.

http://theflashblog.com/?p=1888

That was the big feature in Flash CS5 and Adobe is supposed to release that Flash CS5 on Monday!

 

What a whiney little bitch that dude, I read most of his comments earlier prior to Adobe asking him to pull some of his comments. And then he turns off comments because he is such a little girl

 

So the two girls I know that also bought an iPad both of them have returned theirs to Best Buy. They said it didn't do what they wanted it to do. They wanted it to replace their computers and it can't do that. One told me that when she was returning it at BB the lady working their said that a lot of other people were returning them for the same reason.

 

You'd probably be surprised to know that I actually bought one of these things, and I generally like it. Ironically, some of what you mentioned below are still my biggest gripes - biggest still is no Flash (well... that and no multi-tasking, but hopefully we'll get that with the OS update). I'm constantly running into Flash content that doesn't work on the web. I'm also not liking the keyboard. I'm still not a fan of Apple... still hate iTunes... and the device itself is not particularly innovative. As others have said, it's just a big iPod Touch. So why do I like it anyway? As I said in my brief review: it's a poor excuse for a computer if you try to think of it that way, but for media consumption and the huge app ecosystem, it's pretty compelling for someone like me that doesn't have an iPhone or iPod Touch. So now I'm up to two Apple products that I would endorse: iPhone and (hesitantly) iPad. At least you can't say that I don't have an open mind!

On an unrelated note: Can you play scrabble with online players?

 

Funny...cause I didn't buy one

I dont know if you can right now or not..I think so cause I believe it connects to the facebook scrabble.

But when the OS update comes in the fall...with multitasking...they are creating that whole new online game environment. Im sure many of the popular games will update to take advantage.

 

We've officially entered the Bizarro world.

 

and it's a out to get worse for me

 

Damn. iPad just scored a few extra points with me. Still don't see myself getting one...not anytime in the near future at least. Cool to see it can do stuff like that though.

 

They added that capability in iPhone os 3. It's it pretty common feature I think the psp and nintendo ds do that as well

 

Guess I'm just out of the loop then....

 

My mom wanted to buy one until I told her that she couldn't play Lexulous with it (flash needed)....

I think the Ipad would be a great device if they somehow was able to shrink it so it was able to fit in your pocket...And maybe add a cell phone to it...

 

 

I am still loving mine. haven't managed to get it online with just my iPhone and no computer though.
I can't jailbreak either my 3G, or 3GS because I did the 3.1.3 update. I do have a brand new 3GS I am considering opening, just to jailbreak it and install MyWi...

 

You can do that?!?
I jailbroke my 3GS before I upgraded to 3.1.3, but restored it about a week later because I got the orange bar of death for my iTunes and didn't know how to go about fixing it and didn't have the time right then.

I loved MyWi though!

 

what is this MyWi you guys are talking about?

and why cant you jailbreak with 3.1.3. ??